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By Keith Nuthall

Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools across the continent and, this coming year, an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit from such work.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

TO say Somalia is a mixed bag for the tobacco industry is an understatement. On the one hand, there is a very weak formal government, whose writ does not run in much of the country. So no public place smoking bans, advertising restrictions and ingredient controls to worry about in this east African country: tobacco is sold freely through a thriving private sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A HYDROGEN fuel-cell powered aeroplane has successfully completed test flights from Reggio Emilia airport, Italy, establishing new speed and endurance records for electric-powered planes. The Czech-built Rapid 200-FC aircraft used a 20kW PEM fuel cell and a 20kW Li-Po battery, funded by the international ENFICA-FC research project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank is granting US dollars USD50 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to improve the efficiency and transparency by which this country’s government handles mineral exploitation concessions and contracts. The money will be combined with an additional USD42 million from the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID).…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM

CANADA – long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector – became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

AS with many oils and fats industries, the cocoa sector has distinct elements: producers, processors, distributers, wholesalers and retailers. Their collective environmental impact can be reduced if they work together in the most efficient way possible. And it is partly for that reason that there is a growing trend towards pressing and grinding the cocoa near the source, particularly in Ghana and Ivory Coast (which together account for 60% of the world’s cocoa supply), as well as Indonesia.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

Africa produces 70% of the world’ s cocoa; Asia and Oceania (Pacific islands) provide 19%; and the remaining 11% is from the Americas, according to the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO). There are 5-6 million farmers worldwide – most with farms that cover 2 to 5 hectares.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and CRISTINA MUNTEAN

A SLEW of new European Union (EU) regulations laying down the precise conditions for road transport cabotage operations in the EU came into effect on May 14, and there are hopes they will encourage high quality and competitive haulage for materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is helping reduce the Dominican Republic’s dependence on oil-based fuels by supporting a local gas distribution company. The IFC is investing US dollars USD in Linea Clave International, which began distributing LNG in January and plans to supply natural gas to hotels, power generation companies and transport businesses.…